Senior Analyst Jobs

Senior Analyst
UK

The median Senior Analyst salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 180 292
Rank change year-on-year -2 +112 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Analyst 1,693 1,926 2,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.55% 2.07% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 2.27% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 816 783 1,309
10th Percentile £39,009 £37,908 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,799 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 103,304 84,713 164,821
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 91.21% 95.94%
Number of salaries quoted 73,045 55,139 85,048
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,572 £45,000 £42,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Senior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Analyst.

Salary trend for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Analyst over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Analyst in the UK

Senior Analyst
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 10 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +6 1,559 £57,500 +2.26% 257
UK excluding London -75 943 £52,500 +5.00% 128
Work from Home -29 754 £58,800 +6.91% 121
London +103 691 £70,000 +6.06% 137
South East +28 285 £52,500 -8.70% 31
North of England -121 230 £50,000 - 35
Midlands +38 191 £55,000 +15.18% 10
West Midlands +15 116 £55,000 +9.45% 7
North West +19 107 £50,000 - 23
South West +9 104 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Yorkshire -101 95 £50,000 -0.28% 9
East Midlands +13 73 £62,500 +36.61% 3
Scotland -70 60 £52,000 +6.12% 11
East of England -40 40 £35,000 -33.33% 13
Wales -21 31 £45,000 +15.38% 7
North East +9 28 £35,000 -31.71% 3
Northern Ireland +16 3 £58,800 +23.79% 6
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Senior Analyst job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Analyst in the job title.

1 710 (41.94%) Finance
2 660 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 624 (36.86%) Analytical Skills
4 522 (30.83%) Microsoft
5 491 (29.00%) SQL
6 456 (26.93%) Actionable Insight
7 455 (26.88%) Agile
8 414 (24.45%) Microsoft Excel
9 402 (23.74%) Degree
10 330 (19.49%) Decision-Making
11 294 (17.37%) Mentoring
12 280 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
13 278 (16.42%) Python
14 261 (15.42%) ACCA
14 261 (15.42%) Business Case
15 259 (15.30%) Analytics
16 254 (15.00%) CIMA
17 251 (14.83%) Broadband
18 249 (14.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
18 249 (14.71%) Influencing Skills
19 235 (13.88%) Data Analysis
20 234 (13.82%) Visualisation
20 234 (13.82%) Budgeting
21 209 (12.34%) Mathematics
22 208 (12.29%) Legal
23 205 (12.11%) Tableau
24 181 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
25 180 (10.63%) Azure
26 175 (10.34%) Banking
27 165 (9.75%) Retail

Senior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 46 (2.72%) SAS
2 34 (2.01%) Confluence
3 24 (1.42%) WebLogic
4 17 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.35%) IIS
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.30%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.18%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.12%) WordPress
12 1 (0.059%) Moodle
12 1 (0.059%) Mule
12 1 (0.059%) Tornado
12 1 (0.059%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 414 (24.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.89%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.35%) SOLIDWORKS
7 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.12%) SPSS
7 2 (0.12%) Stata
Business Applications
1 11 (0.65%) Endur
2 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Lawson
4 4 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.12%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
7 1 (0.059%) Magento
7 1 (0.059%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.059%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.059%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.059%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.059%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.059%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (10.63%) Azure
2 164 (9.69%) Power Platform
3 158 (9.33%) AWS
4 101 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (4.02%) Entra ID
6 30 (1.77%) SaaS
7 28 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (1.36%) Miro
9 22 (1.30%) GCP
10 19 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (0.77%) Google Analytics
12 8 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (0.47%) PaaS
12 8 (0.47%) Rubrik
13 7 (0.41%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (0.41%) IaaS
14 6 (0.35%) GitHub
15 5 (0.30%) Adobe Analytics
15 5 (0.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 251 (14.83%) Broadband
2 78 (4.61%) Firewall
3 19 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.06%) Internet
4 18 (1.06%) VoIP
5 16 (0.95%) Intrusion Detection
6 13 (0.77%) VLAN
7 11 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.59%) SAN
8 10 (0.59%) VPN
8 10 (0.59%) WAN
8 10 (0.59%) WPA
9 9 (0.53%) DNS
9 9 (0.53%) LAN
9 9 (0.53%) Wireless
10 8 (0.47%) Network Security
11 7 (0.41%) WLAN
12 6 (0.35%) DHCP
12 6 (0.35%) MPLS
12 6 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (12.11%) Tableau
2 164 (9.69%) Power BI
3 48 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.65%) Data Mining
6 26 (1.54%) Looker
7 24 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
9 15 (0.89%) Metadata
9 15 (0.89%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.83%) Big Data
10 14 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (0.77%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.65%) MS Access
13 8 (0.47%) Essbase
14 6 (0.35%) GIS
14 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.30%) MySQL
16 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 108 (6.38%) Git
2 58 (3.43%) JIRA
3 14 (0.83%) Selenium
4 10 (0.59%) Burp Suite
4 10 (0.59%) Metasploit
5 8 (0.47%) JMeter
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.30%) TestRail
7 5 (0.30%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.24%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.24%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.18%) ERwin
9 3 (0.18%) GitLab
10 2 (0.12%) JUnit
10 2 (0.12%) PowerBuilder
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.12%) TestNG
11 1 (0.059%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 710 (41.94%) Finance
2 660 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 624 (36.86%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (14.71%) Influencing Skills
5 208 (12.29%) Legal
6 175 (10.34%) Banking
7 165 (9.75%) Retail
8 130 (7.68%) Presentation Skills
9 106 (6.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 54 (3.19%) Marketing
11 47 (2.78%) Law
12 43 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (2.54%) Public Sector
13 31 (1.83%) Police
14 24 (1.42%) Games
15 21 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (1.00%) Advertising
17 14 (0.83%) Front Office
18 13 (0.77%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.59%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.42%) J2EE
1 24 (1.42%) Java EE
1 24 (1.42%) REST
1 24 (1.42%) Spring
2 22 (1.30%) .NET
3 15 (0.89%) HTML
4 13 (0.77%) JSON
5 12 (0.71%) CSS
6 10 (0.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.30%) .NET Core
8 5 (0.30%) Blazor
8 5 (0.30%) Entity Framework
8 5 (0.30%) PySpark
9 4 (0.24%) ARM Templates
9 4 (0.24%) Gherkin
9 4 (0.24%) Laravel
9 4 (0.24%) Next.js
9 4 (0.24%) React
9 4 (0.24%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 76 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 39 (2.30%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
5 29 (1.71%) Cyberattack
6 24 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.30%) PMI
9 18 (1.06%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.06%) Reinsurance
10 15 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
11 14 (0.83%) Social Media
12 12 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
13 11 (0.65%) NHS
13 11 (0.65%) Security Posture
13 11 (0.65%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.59%) Biopharmaceutical
14 10 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.59%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 97 (5.73%) Windows
2 36 (2.13%) Linux
2 36 (2.13%) Unix
3 31 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.12%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.35%) SUSE
5 6 (0.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.18%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.059%) Android
10 1 (0.059%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (26.93%) Actionable Insight
2 455 (26.88%) Agile
3 330 (19.49%) Decision-Making
4 294 (17.37%) Mentoring
5 280 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
6 261 (15.42%) Business Case
7 259 (15.30%) Analytics
8 249 (14.71%) Budgeting and Forecasting
9 235 (13.88%) Data Analysis
10 234 (13.82%) Budgeting
10 234 (13.82%) Visualisation
11 209 (12.34%) Mathematics
12 181 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
13 163 (9.63%) Business Strategy
14 162 (9.57%) Business Intelligence
15 160 (9.45%) Information Security
16 155 (9.16%) Statistics
17 146 (8.62%) Process Improvement
18 127 (7.50%) Data Management
18 127 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 491 (29.00%) SQL
2 278 (16.42%) Python
3 74 (4.37%) PowerShell
4 42 (2.48%) R
5 32 (1.89%) VBA
6 31 (1.83%) C#
6 31 (1.83%) Java
7 24 (1.42%) Shell Script
8 19 (1.12%) T-SQL
9 14 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (0.77%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.41%) C++
11 7 (0.41%) PHP
12 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
13 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 4 (0.24%) C
13 4 (0.24%) VB
14 3 (0.18%) RPG
14 3 (0.18%) VB6
Qualifications
1 402 (23.74%) Degree
2 261 (15.42%) ACCA
3 254 (15.00%) CIMA
4 109 (6.44%) DBS Check
4 109 (6.44%) Security Cleared
5 91 (5.38%) SC Cleared
6 58 (3.43%) CISSP
7 32 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.59%) CISM
9 26 (1.54%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.18%) CISA
11 19 (1.12%) CompTIA CySA+
12 18 (1.06%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.89%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.77%) GIAC
16 11 (0.65%) CCNP
16 11 (0.65%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.97%) GDPR
2 59 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 36 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (1.95%) SLA
5 32 (1.89%) QA
6 29 (1.71%) NIST
7 18 (1.06%) IFRS
8 14 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.83%) GRC
9 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 10 (0.59%) PMO
12 9 (0.53%) COBIT
13 4 (0.24%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.24%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
15 1 (0.059%) Accessibility
15 1 (0.059%) ITGC
15 1 (0.059%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 50 (2.95%) RACF
3 11 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.35%) Firmware
6 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (1.42%) OpenSSO
3 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.83%) SCCM
5 10 (0.59%) Nmap
6 9 (0.53%) QRadar
7 8 (0.47%) Terraform
8 7 (0.41%) CASB
9 6 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.24%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.12%) cPanel
11 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.059%) Control-M
12 1 (0.059%) HP SiteScope
12 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Clustering
12 1 (0.059%) Perfmon
12 1 (0.059%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 522 (30.83%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.32%) Databricks
3 62 (3.66%) Oracle
4 51 (3.01%) CyberArk
5 39 (2.30%) SAP
6 31 (1.83%) Cisco
7 28 (1.65%) Google
7 28 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 25 (1.48%) VMware
9 24 (1.42%) Remedy
10 23 (1.36%) Alteryx
10 23 (1.36%) Citrix
11 18 (1.06%) CA
12 17 (1.00%) IBM
13 15 (0.89%) HP
14 14 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.83%) SolarWinds
14 14 (0.83%) Splunk
15 13 (0.77%) Hyperion
16 12 (0.71%) Palo Alto